- Description
- 1 online resource (x, 380 p.) : ill., map.
- Uniform Title
- Blueprint for disaster (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Blueprint for disaster (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-354) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- What went wrong with public housing in Chicago? -- The 1937 Housing Act revisited -- Building the Chicago Housing Authority -- Clearing Chicago's slums -- The end of integration and the taming of the CHA -- Designing high-rise disasters -- Planning a social disaster -- The loss of the working class -- The tenants revolt -- The Gautreaux case and the limits of judicial activism -- The long road to rebirth -- The unraveling of public housing in Chicago.
- LCCN
- 2009006297
- OCLC
- ssj0000113394
- Author
Hunt, D. Bradford, 1968-
- Title
Blueprint for disaster [electronic resource] : the unraveling of Chicago public housing / D. Bradford Hunt.
- Imprint
Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2009.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-354) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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